Review and document string format accepted in numeric data type constructors

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assignee = 'https://github.com/abalkin'
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2010-11-29.17:55:50.898>
labels = ['interpreter-core', 'type-feature', 'docs']
title = 'Review and document string format accepted in numeric data type constructors'
updated_at = <Date 2014-10-14.15:12:17.129>
user = 'https://github.com/abalkin'

activity = <Date 2014-10-14.15:12:17.129>
actor = 'skrah'
assignee = 'belopolsky'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation', 'Interpreter Core']
creation = <Date 2010-11-29.17:55:50.898>
creator = 'belopolsky'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 10581
keywords = []
message_count = 16.0
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nosy_count = 11.0
nosy_names = ['lemburg', 'loewis', 'mark.dickinson', 'ncoghlan', 'belopolsky', 'vstinner', 'eric.smith', 'ezio.melotti', 'eric.araujo', 'cvrebert', 'serhiy.storchaka']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue10581'
versions = ['Python 3.3', 'Python 3.4']

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